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For better or for worse, there are, commonly, comparisons between sports and war. The players “going to battle.” The game was “a war.”

But in a far more positive development, for what is believed the first time in its 115 year history, Lord Stanley’s Cup traveled to the combat zone of Kandahar, Afghanistan, this week. Along with the ever present Hockey Hall of Fame personnel, chaperoning the Cup is Canada’s Chief of Defense General Rick Hiller and 19 former NHL players, including Bob Probert, Tiger Williams, and Ron Tugnutt.

The group will also tour the region and play a couple of ball hockey games with some of the Canadian soldiers stationed at the military base, which number more than 2,000.

“We’re here to meet the troops and hopefully boost some morale up here,” said Probert.